Radman_Art_3_Radman Saves

Radman saves is a comic I made to pass out at the Mike Mcguil skate park. That was the reason I drew it so I had to be as nice as I could because I might be handing it out to kids. Although the art is child like I always liked it. I always liked the scene where Radman is sleeping on clouds. I got the idea of Radman falling and getting up when I saw Lance Mountain do that at the park. The ramps in the comic are modeled after the ramps at that famous park. I would be able to go to the park free like 50 times because I did a t-shirt project for Mike. I do not know if he ever used it. Mike Mcguil was one of the Powell Puralta gang from the Chin Movie. He was a stunt guy for Gleaming the Cube too. He was like my friend back then. I purposely drew the skaters in impossible positions because there was this kid who used to criticize my art because of the angles of the tricks.He used to say this trick is not possable to do. If fact I think he is the reason I drew this comic. Allot of these kids where real pro skaters. Like my wife's favorite Danny Way. For some reason my wife remembered this little dude. This kid was really good. I saw him beat Tony Hawk one time in this game on the Chicago blow out ramp one time. I used to staple the comics in little books back then they where kind of neat. Those where the days, I was king of the world with a skateboard. Hanging at that park made you famous. One time this magazine from Australia had me pose for picture for them. I would meet pros like steve Stedham in the parking lot and show him my art for sale. The problem was when I moved away to San Luis Obispo, I lost touch with every one. The funny thing was about 6 months before they Mike McGuil put the park there I had heard about it from some skaters and used to hop the fence and skate there. I remember one time convinsing the guys that worked there to let me skate and they did. I could not believe it because every one said how tough they where. I think it was a skate park in the 1970’s. I heard they had to shut it down because the skaters used to get into fights with the race car people. It was on the same land as a race car track. By the time they built the park I was already good at skating the old cement. I used to do this one trick where I would drop in like a fall for a 5 foot high vertical lip of concrete. It used to impress people. I remember Larry Balma told me that was pretty good. But since my street skater buddy’s where always against sponsor ship I never wanted to be sponsored because I thought of all the really great skaters around Vista, San Marco’s and Escondido that should be sponsored and where not. that park was so close to where I lived. The picture on my web site now is of the industrial park in back of the apartment I lived in Vista. Carlbad park was on the other side of that. The only thing was there was no roads that way. The weather was perfect and the sky was blue every day.